braggadocio

[brag-uh-doh-shee-oh]

noun, plural brag·ga·do·ci·os.

empty boasting; bragging.

a boasting person; braggart.

Origin of braggadocio

after Braggadocchio, boastful character in Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage based on brag

Related formsbrag·ga·do·ci·an, adjective

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Related Words for braggadocios

windbag, boaster, blowhard, brag, bragger, show-off, bombast, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt

Examples from the Web for braggadocios

Historical Examples of braggadocios

He had set them down as a set of landlubbers and braggadocios, and was disposed to treat them accordingly.
Astoria
Washington Irving

British Dictionary definitions for braggadocios

braggadocio

noun plural -os

vain empty boasting

a person who boasts; braggart

Word Origin for braggadocio

C16: from Braggadocchio, name of a boastful character in Spenser's Faerie Queene; probably from braggart + Italian -occhio (augmentative suffix)

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Word Origin and History for braggadocios

braggadocio

Spenser's coinage, 1590, as a name for his personification of vainglory, from brag, with augmentative ending by analogy to the Italian words then in vogue in England. In general use by 1594 for "an empty swaggerer;" of the talk of such persons, from 1734.